Obama likely President of last Age
U.S. Heads into a Final Political Abyss
Greatest Problem facing our US Politicians
Was their bad record while they were in Office
Shortest candidate record belongs to B.
H. Obama
In today’s mammon-hungry world that’s a safe Haven
Everyday Life of Peace And Prosperity WILL NOT Continue
But Promises of It can easily be made by One with no Record
Everyday lifestyle we have enjoyed so long will abruptly Change
In society today, the longer in office, the more ‘bad’ the media Finds
Luke 17:26-30 – And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
[28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. [30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
June 21, 2008
I have always contended that when Israel is attacked from the north the U.S. will assist Israel with life sustaining supplies and air evacuations, but will not get directly involved in the fighting of the war, which drives Israel into the Negev. I agree with the Creators Syndicate article which follows our heading in an article by Mark Shields. Following his article there is Archive Prophecy Update 187A on why the U.S. will not fight for Israel in the coming Middle East War.
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Article
Obama’s Brandenburg Gate
By Mark Shields
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One iron rule of political campaigns dictates, “As the candidate, you should always do those things — to your own campaign’s advantage — which your opponent is unable to do.”
For example, if your own income tax returns are reasonably simple and straightforward with no suspicious tax loopholes, and you have grounds to believe that your opponent’s returns are overly complicated, confusing and potentially a problem for him to publicly explain, then by all means make your own returns public and challenge — based on “the public’s right to know” — your opponent to do the same immediately.
Likewise, if your opponent — throughout his public career — has depended upon being been backed politically and financially by an identifiable organized group, such as a labor union, and that group’s leadership has recently been indicted for illegal activities, then announce immediately that you will neither seek nor accept the endorsement of any organization under a legal cloud and challenge your opponent to follow your ethical lead.
The old “Do What Your Opponent Cannot Do” rule comes to mind after reading the Pew Global Attitude Project’s 2008 survey of 24,717 people in 24 countries, completed in April.
Even with some modest up-ticks in favorability this year, favorable feelings toward the United States have still dropped like a rock since George W. Bush entered the White House, plummeting some 47 percent in Germany, 30 percent in Great Britain, 20 percent in France and 17 percent in Spain.
When asked, “How much confidence do you have in President George W. Bush to do the right thing regarding world affairs — a lot of confidence, some confidence, not too much confidence or no confidence at all?” 3 percent or fewer of the people in Britain, France, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Argentina and Brazil (not including zero in Turkey) expressed a “lot of confidence” in Bush.
Still, there are signs of foreign attitudes toward the United States improving, according to Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center.
This “reflects an anticipation of change in the White House.”
Why the lift? “People around the world,” finds Andy Kohut, “think the next president will have a positive change on U.S. foreign policy.” There is keen interest in the U.S. presidential election overseas, most especially in Japan, where a higher percentage of citizens (83 percent) are paying close attention to the U.S. election than are in America (80 percent).
The story here is Democrat Barack Obama, who according to Kohut “has made quite a splash across the seas” and “has strong international appeal just about everywhere.” When asked how much confidence they had in Obama to “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” the French (84 percent confidence in Obama), Tanzanians (84 percent), Germans (82 percent), Australians (80 percent), Japanese (77 percent), British (74 percent) and Spanish (72 percent) are incredibly bullish on the young Illinois Democrat. Republican John McCain gets higher ratings than George W.
Bush but trails Obama almost everywhere and by nearly 50 percent in both France and Germany.
Now back to the Iron Rule. McCain put Obama on the political defensive last week over Obama’s failure to visit Iraq during the last two years. Almost certainly, under some pressure, Obama will make a trip to Iraq to visit — and to be seen visiting — with American troops and brass.
But after his meetings in Iraq, Obama could quite legitimately “Do What His Opponent Cannot Do,” by meeting foreign leaders and holding public events in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, London, Paris and maybe even Tokyo and Melbourne, and be guaranteed the kind of huge, enthusiastic and pro-American crowds that would dominate media coverage both here and abroad.
Imagine the compelling sight — to American voters — of French, Germans, Spanish and Japanese holding high in their hands American flags to welcome the Democratic presidential nominee who had been an early opponent of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
Why does this matter? “It is important for America,” says Kohut, “to be able to persuade other nations to join, to follow the U.S. — rather than for the U.S. to ‘muscle’ them.”
Sure, some xenophobes would object to Obama’s “foreign primary,” arguing that he cares more about Rome, Italy, than Rome, Ga. But tell me, wouldn’t it be grand to have an American leader being cheered — like John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were — in the shadow of the Brandenburg Gate?
To find out more about Mark Shields and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.
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Special Prophecy Update Number 187A
August 29, 2004
Atomic War in Israel – Yes or No
? – Number 2
More than a year ago I issued Special Prophecy Update Number 129C, titled “Atomic War in Israel, Yes or No?” I would like to reaffirm my belief in its validity
in Number 2. The original Update 129C, issued July 23, 2003, was as follows: (BEGIN QUOTE OF 129C)
“One of the main reasons I wrote three books on prophecy in the late seventies and early eighties was to establish a case advocated by teachers of the pre-World War II era. It was, simply stated, that man would not destroy the earth with his weaponry, but rather that God would destroy the earth by the use of this own power. I am certain that the horrifying changes in the topography of Israel, as well as the terrifying destruction of the antichrist’s forces at Armageddon, are by the awesome power of God, not
atomic, chemical, or biological weapons of man. The lifting of the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem, the breaking up of Jerusalem into three sections, the splitting of the Mount of Olives, and the consuming of the flesh, tongues, and eyes of the antichrist’s men are natural phenomena unleashed by God, not by man. All the Scriptures dealing with these phenomena unleashed by God are covered in Birth Pang and Prophecy Archives.
There are many advocates of a great atomic, chemical, and biological war in Israel when the antichrist attacks 1260 days before Armageddon. It might happen at the time of Armageddon, but the initial attack will start what amounts to a non-nuclear, non-chemical, and non-biological war. So why am I so confident and outspoken about this being the case?
Israel has more than 200 extremely well concealed missile silos in the Negev between Beersheba and the Gulf of Aqabah.
(1) It has more than 300 nuclear, chemical, and biological warheads to mount on Jericho missiles.
(2) The Jericho is a very accurate missile, and can hit a target in any Islamic country from Morocco to Pakistan and from Turkey to Yemen.
(3) Israel has an excellent anti-missile defense to protect its array of silos, warheads, and missiles. It is able to pick up an incoming enemy missile launched from Syria before it reaches it maximum altitude.
(4) So why do I believe this array of WMD will not be unleashed by Israel when it is attacked? Because the Israeli War Contingency Plan of Israel directs that WMD will never be launched against a foreign nation unless they are first launched against Israel.
(5) So how do I know the Islamic countries will not launch WMD in their initial attack? All of them are well aware of what is listed in (1) through (5)! The former Soviet Union, which it existed, shared Israeli intelligence information with Syria, which it collected over a long period of time from its hundreds of spy satellites it launched from pads between Moscow and the White Sea, and on the eastern side of the Aral Sea. Syria, in turn, has shared it with some of the other Islamic countries around Israel. Only a leader possessed of rank insanity would ever launch WMD first against Israel, which is why I was so relieved when Saddam Hussein was taken out of the way.
Many believe the United States will quickly rush to the aid of Israel, and, as the world’s greatest power, will immediately deliver her from any kind of attack she can’t handle. There are two problems with this idea: (1) The United States believes Israel can defeat any Islamic attack on its own without any help from us. After all, Israel has easily done so in three previous wars and, (2) This will be a lightning Jihad, and better coordinated than any of the previous wars, and this time Israel will have a Palestinian state attacking it from within, while the other Islamic nations come in from outside its borders. It will prob ably l
ast less than a couple of weeks, and Jerusalem is likely to fall within four days. By the time we decide they must have our help it will be too late, because they will have occupied most of the land from Dan to Beersheba.
It would take months, as it did in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Freedom Iraq, to get enough American troops on the ground to do any good.
What was the character of Israel’s past three wars? They were all very short in duration, and they all ended abruptly in a truce. That will be the case in this war.
The United States knows that the Negev is the place where Israel will flee. When we believe they are safely in the Negev, we will be more than willing to accept a truce to give us time to think about what to do, and Israel will remain trapped in the Negev for some three and one-half years.
The part played by the United States during this period of three and one-half years is interspersed throughout our Prophecy Archives, with some of it in Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, 32 & 33, and 74 & 75.”
(END QUOTE OF UPDATE 129C).
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Since Update 129C was issued, several noteworthy things have come to pass that reduce the likelihood of a nuclear war in the Middle East. The area is headed toward a situation where both sides will realize a nuclear war would leave the victor, or victors, in such a powerless state, that any future they might have would be desolate, and leave them in a position of great vulnerability to the rest of the oil consuming nations. Some of these noteworthy recent events, which would tend to create a standoff, such as the one that developed between the United States and the once mighty Soviet Union, are as follows:
(1) Syria now has a better Scud than the Scud B. The Scud D missile, considered to be the most sophisticated weapon of its kind, is now in the hands of the Syrian military. It is able to deliver nuclear, chemical, or biological multiple warheads to their targets in Israel from Syria.
(2) The jointly developed American-Israeli Arrow 2 missile successfully launched an Arrow 2 missile that destroyed a Scud B over the Pacific Ocean earlier this year. The Arrow 2 is designed to intercept an enemy missile before it reaches its peak altitude, far from Israeli territory. However, in a recent test against the Scud D, it failed to intercept the detached warhead. It was not a complete failure, and the results are in the process of being analyzed. Israel says it can still effectively destroy the Scud D.
(3) Syria also maintains a sizeable ballistic missile arsenal and, like Iran, is active in upgrading and expanding its capabilities.
(4) In June Iran announced it is building its first stealth missile, a rocket that can evade electronic detection. The missile was named Kowsar, in honor of the Kowsar river in paradise, which is found in the Koran, the Holy Book of Islam. Iran announced it would be capable of hitting ships and aircraft.
(5) Iran is continuing to steam toward development of its own nuclear bomb, which many believe it could develop as early as next year. It is now going underground, and spreading out its nuclear development sites in order to limit the damage that could be incurred by an Israeli air strike, like the one carried out on Iraq’s nuclear facility in 1981.
(6) Iran is manufacturing various missiles, chief among them being the Shahab-3, whose range of 1300 km (793 mi) allows it to reach Israel. It is designed to carry up to a 700-kilogram conventional warhead. But the Iranians are currently developing the Shihab 4 and 5, with ranges of 3000 km (1830 mi) and 6000 km (3660 mi), which puts all of Europe in its sights, and these both missiles will be able to carry chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons.
(7) At the same time that Iran and Syria are attempting to manufacture weapons of mass destructions, and the missiles to deliver them, they are also building up their conventional arsenal of weapons. Iran has been making its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and fighter planes, inside its own borders for some time. They have been guided by the designs of weaponry supplied to them by North Korea, Russia, and even China in both their conventional and non-conventional programs of weaponry development. The huge payments from the Iranian oil money have, for some time, helped to keep the Russian Economy afloat, and the North Korean economy from completely collapsing.
I do not believe there will be a nuclear, biological or chemical war in the Middle East. I have long been convinced of this. It will be a great war, but only conventional weapons will be used. I will not rule out the possibility of some being used at Armageddon, but I really don’t believe they will
be launched even them.
It is no secret that, if left unchecked, Iran is determined to become a global nuclear power with long range nuclear missiles that could strike Europe, plus NATO and American forces within a 3600 mile radius, and the United States and Israel are determined to not let that happen.
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